★ 2 / 10
Slow somnambulant detective movie. The acting is tooo
Richard B
Slow somnambulant detective movie. The acting is tooo knowing and false. Watch it if you have insomnia.
Slow somnambulant detective movie. The acting is tooo knowing and false. Watch it if you have insomnia.
★ 8 / 10
an existentialist nightmare!
An uncommonly bleak, Bible black Hungarian thriller from 1990 that eerily seems to exist in a sinisterly primordial age all of its very own. A seasoned…
An uncommonly bleak, Bible black Hungarian thriller from 1990 that eerily seems to exist in a sinisterly primordial age all of its very own. A seasoned detective's search for a brutal serial child killer draws him inexorably into an obsessive manhunt which leads him ever deeper into a malign vortex of his very own increasingly tormented psyche. Twilight is a morbidly crepuscular, unhurried, almost wholly interior crime procedural, an existentialist nightmare which slowly envelops the spectator within a dense pall of creeping disquiet. An astonishing, absolutely unique iteration of a murder mystery, Gyorgy Feher's singular vision is strikingly visual, unsettling, yet never less than mesmerising. Utilizing his fluidic camera with consummate skill, the detective's expressly grim, psychologically devastating odyssey is illuminated in only the blackest of hues. An exquisite work of immaculately photographed doom, both manifestly human and utterly primal, breathtakingly beautiful and utterly profane. Films are actively voyeuristic, and if made especially skilfully, they momentarily turn us all into Peeping Toms, and some truly rarefied films, do the very opposite, they stare deeply into the viewer, pitilessly probing our viscera and brain flesh like a mortician; this is just such a paradigm shifting work. Feher's Twilight is quite unlike any crime film I can recall seeing, Jean Cocteau on tainted Ketamine, an unholy guttural shriek of despair condensed to the deathly smothering consistency of icy concrete.
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★ 6 / 10
Visual merits, but excessively sluggish and confusing
It is a murder mistery film, but unusual aesthetic choices made it different from the genre: over-slow, black and white cinenatography with little contrast, a…
It is a murder mistery film, but unusual aesthetic choices made it different from the genre: over-slow, black and white cinenatography with little contrast, a lot of fog. It seems to be a film about the impotence of the investigator, who feels either unable to find out who is the murderer or to avoid a new crime. There are some scenes with quite nice cinematography, but sluggish pace and confusing script really bored me. If the intention was to be atmospheric - and I do think it was -, the way it destroyed my pacience seriously led to a failure in that very goal.By the way, all those hands on the girl's face were disgusting, and so was the rape scene (which meant what, precisely?).
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